You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson.

We got some dumb-ass motherfuckers floating around this country.

Stop laughing.

And when I do, start fucking.

Also, y'all did some nasty-ass jokes on my ass, too.

Funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth.

You fucking guys are unbelievable.

Why are you laughing?

Evening, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, a History of Comedy Podcast.

And today, I am pleased to introduce to you, Bill Burr, let it go.

One of, I think, the first special of Bill Burrs that I saw, and Craig and I were just talking in the

midst of one of the great runs in comedy history. This special came out because Craig was

asking me, you said this is your favorite Bill Burr special. Oh yeah, for sure.

My favorite Bill Burr special, maybe my favorite special ever is, I'm sorry you feel that way, the black and white Netflix one. Yeah. But it is, I think they're all kind of on par with each other, let it go, you people are all the same. I'm sorry, you feel that way. And what was the one before this that we just looked up? Why do I do this? Why do I do this? That's right. That's a run. And I was trying to think when you asked me, you said, has anyone had a run like that? Four specials of that level of quality. Louis would be close. Hilarious, shameless and chewed up for sure. I'm not sure which one came right after that.

But Louis would be close.

Like, I'd put Malaney in that echelon, honestly.

But it's not, there's not a lot of guys, particularly in the last 25 years.

In this century, I can't think of a lot of guys that have had a run like that, especially with the pace he was putting them out. It was every year and a half, two years, or something like that at that time. So there's been a lot of talk about Bill Burr on this channel lately. Craig has tried to rile me up saying, this guy's not funny. And I said, let's remind everyone of a time where we all agreed he was funny. Because now it is getting to a point with Bill Burr where you hear people like, he was never funny. That's not true. It's just ridiculous, obviously. So, well, we're taking the time machine just to remind people what they might be forgetting. So we'll be talking about let it go today.

And I want to remind you guys to go back through the archives, if you, before you

recommend an episode, because sometimes people will say, hey, why don't you do Phil Hartman,

or why don't you do Carl Reiner or Fred Willard or these episodes that nobody watched,

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